Chapter 709 Nineteen Knives in the Heart

In the jungle of Emerald City, a red shadow shuttled through and headed straight for the teleportation array.

"Vivian, why do you think Xiaoxue is at home?" Mu You finally had time to ask halfway.

"You entered the time cage. If she was stranded in another world for some reason and now returns to our world, then in theory, she will appear directly in the last scene when she left this world."

"The last scene..."

Mu You understood a little.

Xiaoxue did not leave the time cage halfway, so she must have disappeared in the scene of the time cage.

And their time cage scene is most likely where he lived as a child.

The pet shop is the most likely scene. After all, he grew up in a pet shop and stayed at home for much longer than other places on the earth.

"Of course, it's just my guess. You need to go back to confirm the specific situation." Vivian said.

"Yeah."

Mu You nodded and silently quickened his pace.

Soon, he returned to the abyss through the teleportation array of the Elf City, and returned to the earth through the space-time crack under the abyss...

In a dizzy feeling, Mu You appeared on the teleportation array in the basement of the pet shop.

The originally messy basement was now spotlessly clean, especially around the teleportation array, there was no debris.

After more than a month, it was so tidy that it seemed like someone came to clean it every day.

"Meow, Mu You!!" With the familiar cat's cry, Ke Le emerged from the darkness under the table, excitedly pounced at his feet, and circled around his legs.

"Mu You, you are finally back, Mu You!" Ke Le excitedly scratched the floor as a cat scratching board, leaving scratches.

"Coke, where are the people at home?" Mu You leaned over and touched its head.

"Everyone is here, everyone is waiting for you to come back!"

Ke Le fell to the ground and exposed his belly to ask for caress, but he proudly asked for credit: "I knew you would come back from here, so I waited for you in the basement every day!"

"Thank you for your hard work." Mu You smiled.

"Coke?! Why are you in the basement again? I just finished mopping the floor..." A familiar voice came from upstairs.

The basement door was opened, and Xiaoya walked down the stairs, holding a bucket and a mop in her hands: "Ah, as expected, there are footprints all over the floor, and I have to make them again..."

Xiaoya's complaints suddenly stopped. When she went downstairs, she saw Mu You standing in the room. She was stunned and stared at him blankly. The bucket in her hand fell to the ground with a clang, and she didn't realize it.

Mu You was also stunned when he saw Xiaoya. After not seeing her for a month, she was obviously thinner, and her face was also tired. She was not as energetic as usual.

"Um..."

Xiaoya looked at Mu You, and suddenly a huge grievance rose in her heart. She pursed her lips, choked and cried on the spot, wiping tears with both hands, but the more she wiped, the more tears she wiped.

"Xiaoya..." Mu You hurried forward.

Xiaoya buried her head in his chest, crying more violently, and her tears soon wet her clothes.

"Didn't we agree that you would be back in five seconds... Why are you only now... Woohoo, I almost thought you wouldn't be back..."

"Sorry, I made you worry..." Mu You patted her back, looking at the mop and bucket on the ground, feeling a little distressed.

He could imagine that during the month they disappeared, Xiaoya must have been worried all day, staying in the store every day, cleaning the house over and over again, hoping that when he came back, the first thing he saw was a clean house.

"Don't worry, it's all right." Mu You smiled and comforted.

"Well..."

After crying for a while, Xiaoya's mood gradually stabilized, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, then looked up at him, looked behind him, and said blankly: "Boss, why are you alone, where is Sister Xue?"

Mu You's heart suddenly skipped a beat when he heard this.

Did they guess wrong, Lin Xue didn't come back?

"Xiaoxue, she's back." At this time, a voice came from the top of the stairs.

The two looked up and saw Linglong standing at the door of the basement, leaning against the door and smiling at the two: "Main body, welcome back."

"Ah? Sister Linglong, you said Sister Xue has come back? Why didn't I see her?" Xiaoya was at a loss.

"Upstairs, in the study, she suddenly appeared a few minutes ago." Linglong shook her head and said.

"Great! Sister Xue is really something, why didn't she show up when she came back..." Xiaoya complained, but her face relaxed. Now that Mu You and Lin Xue are back, she can finally let go of the worry she had these days.

Mu You noticed the hesitation on Linglong's face: "What's wrong, what's wrong with Xiaoxue?"

Linglong sighed: "Xiaoxue, she's not in a good state. I called her out but she refused to leave, insisting on staying in the study, saying that she had an appointment with you and must wait for you there until you come back..."

"Wait for me..." Mu You was stunned.

Linglong spread her hands: "I don't know what happened between you. Anyway, go see her."

"Okay."

Mu You didn't have time to think about it, and hurried out of the basement and rushed to the second floor.

In the study room at the end of the stairs, when Mu You pushed the door and walked in, Lin Xue was standing in front of the bookshelf, covering her heart, staring blankly out the window, motionless.

Hearing the voice behind her, Lin Xue's body trembled and turned around mechanically.

When she saw that it was Mu You who came in, a smile finally bloomed on her nervous face.

"You're back...I knew you would succeed..."

Lin Xue's voice seemed very pleased, with a clear sense of relief.

Lin Xue said, and walked towards Muyou impatiently, but ended up stumbling like a patient who had been bedridden for a long time. He just took two steps and fell to the side as if he had exhausted all his strength.

Mu You hurriedly rushed over and caught her before she fell to the ground.

Mu You was a little surprised. At this time, Lin Xue's body was as soft as a ball of cotton. She had no strength at all and was very weak. It was only when he got closer that he saw clearly that her face was pale, her eyes were bloodshot, and her eyes were thick with dark circles. This was a long-term condition. Symptoms of lack of sleep.

Lin Xue didn't care about herself, but looked at Mu You with a smile, a kind of satisfaction in her eyes.

"Xiaoxue, you...what happened?" Mu You couldn't help but ask.

"Xiao Xue?"

Lin Xue seemed to be surprised by his title, and the smile on her face stopped suddenly, revealing a sad expression.

"As expected...you don't remember anything...right?"

"I activated the archiver, so the memory is..." Mu You was a little embarrassed.

"All of them? Do you really...can't remember anything about us?" Lin Xue looked at him expectantly.

"I..." Mu You hurriedly searched his mind, trying to find a few memories.

Unfortunately, no.

The role of the archiver is absolute. Everything he has experienced in the past month has been completely deleted.

However, looking at Lin Xue's expectant expression at this time, Mu You didn't know why but he really didn't want to disappoint her, and even subconsciously wanted to lie to comfort her.

But soon he realized that lying was useless, Lin Xue could read minds, and his brief silence at this time actually answered everything.

The expectation in Lin Xue's eyes gradually disappeared, and she suddenly covered the left side of her heart. A look of violent pain flashed across her face for a moment, but she didn't seem to want Mu You to notice, so she hurriedly changed her expression and squeezed out a forced smile: "Forget it. It’s nothing…at least we are all alive, that’s enough…”

Lin Xue tried very hard to hide the pain under her smile, but at such a close distance, how could she escape Mu You's eyes.

At this time, Lin Xue was sweating slightly on his forehead, and kept covering his chest with one hand, obviously suffering from some severe pain.

"Xiaoxue, are you injured? What happened in our time cage? How did you..." Mu You had too many questions to ask.

Even the Fairy Queen and the others couldn't see the scene in the time cage, and he lost his memory, so now the only one who knows what happened is Lin Xue.

"We... have gone through a lot of things... We have spent two thousand years together in the Zhiming Realm..." Lin Xue said intermittently, but with each word, the pain on his face became more intense.

"Two thousand years?" Mu You was a little surprised.

They only spent two thousand years together? But didn’t he stay there for 3 billion years? Did he spend the rest of the time alone?

"The rest of the time...I...ugh!"

Lin Xue seemed to have recalled something bad, and groaned. The pain on his face could no longer be concealed, and he covered his left chest with both hands. He was sweating profusely from the pain and had difficulty breathing.

"Okay, I won't ask anymore. If you're not feeling well, we won't talk about it." Mu You was startled and hurriedly offered words of comfort.

For some reason, when he saw Lin Xue's painful look, he suddenly felt a strong heartache. He hugged her tightly almost instinctively, and touched the side of her face with his right hand.

Then I realized that this action was inappropriate, a little too close, and subconsciously let go.

Lin Xue, however, looked at him steadily and grabbed his hand that he pulled back, with some surprise in her eyes.

"You still remember, right?" Lin Xue looked at him expectantly again.

"I..." Mu You was also a little confused. The action just now was like an instinctive reaction of the body, done without going through his brain at all.

Lin Xue was not disappointed this time, but smiled: "You forgot, but your body still remembers..."

Lin Xue said, taking the initiative to grab his hand and put it on the side of her face. Then she tilted her head and leaned her weight on his hand, feeling the warmth of his palm.

"Mu You... I'm so tired... I really want to take a rest..." Lin Xue said weakly.

"Then go to sleep, don't force yourself." Mu You nodded quickly. Even he could clearly feel Lin Xue's mental exhaustion. She had almost reached a limit, and he wished she could rest as soon as possible.

"But, I dare not close my eyes... I'm afraid..."

"What are you afraid of?"

"I'm afraid that when I open my eyes, you'll be gone again... I'm even more afraid that I'll forget you again..." Lin Xue's eyelids had begun to fight, but she still insisted on looking at him and said in an almost begging voice: "Promise me , if I fall asleep, don't leave me..."

Mu You was confused, but he nodded quickly and promised: "Okay, don't worry, I promise I won't leave, I will stay here with you!"

"Um……"

Lin Xue seemed to finally feel at ease, showing a smile, her eyelids could no longer hold up, closed them together, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Mu You was sure that she was really asleep, so he picked her up and put her on the bed in the study.

Originally, he wanted to help her take off her shoes and socks, but found that Lin Xue was still holding his hand tightly even if she fell asleep.

Once he tried to break away, Lin Xue in the dream would frown with a fearful expression on his face.

Mu You had no choice but to give up and stay aside obediently, letting her hold her, so that Lin Xue's expression would be calmer in her sleep.

After coming back to his senses and looking at the sleeping Lin Xue, Mu You also had a headache.

He still didn't understand what happened. From his perspective, just a few minutes later, Lin Xue seemed to have completely changed. From the calm and independent Lin Xue, he became very emotional and... clingy. ?

Of course, for Lin Xue, she had truly spent two thousand years in the past ten minutes. Such a long time is naturally enough to completely change a person.

And the instinctive reaction of his body just now also proved that he and Lin Xue might have been very close...

Mu You shook his head, getting rid of these messy thoughts, looked at Lin Xue, and first checked her status with the omniscient crystal.

As a result, her life was full, with no external injuries or any unhealthy state such as poisoning or hallucinations.

"There is no external injury, could it be internal injury?" Mu You thought.

From the moment she entered the room, Lin Xue would cover her left heart from time to time, which was obviously the source of pain.

After thinking about it, Mu You opened the Golden Crow Eye and looked through Lin Xue's organs and flesh, especially the heart.

As a result, no injuries were found, and all her organs were intact.

"how so?"

Mu You frowned, there was obviously no injury, why was there such obvious pain?

"The body is not injured, but the soul level is not certain." Linglong's voice came.

Mu You looked back and saw Linglong and Xiaoya appearing at the door.

The two of them had actually been here for a while, but after seeing the interaction between Lin Xue and Mu You just now, they were too sensible to come in and disturb them.

"Do you know what's going on?" Mu You asked hurriedly.

"I can probably feel something." Linglong nodded, walked into the room, came to the bedside, and looked at Lin Xue on the bed: "When I first met Xiaoxue just now, I had noticed that there was something abnormal about her soul, but she I’m hiding it on purpose, I can’t check it.”

After the goblins had finished carving the statues of the major gods and sent them to the earth, players had a richer choice of beliefs.

The belief that Linglong chose was Lin Xue's statue of the God of Death, so she mastered some of the God of Death's magic, including the talent of opening the Soul Eye to directly observe the soul in the body.

"What to do?" Mu You asked.

"Original body, you first use the power of heaven to suppress her death power, and then I can see the condition of her soul." Linglong said.

The hierarchy within the same theocratic system is strict. As the god walker of the God of Death, Lin Xue is the highest-level believer in the God of Death. If other ordinary believers want to overcome her, it is almost impossible to directly use the God of Death magic on her.

Mu You nodded and cast some heavenly power on Lin Xue.

Linglong next to her opened her soul eyes in cooperation and observed Lin Xue's entire soul.

"Um?"

Linglong quickly frowned.

"What's wrong?" Mu You asked hurriedly.

"A part of her soul is missing!"

"Missing?"

"Yes, the soul at the heart has been cut with nineteen wounds!" Linglong said solemnly: "These are permanent injuries, and I'm afraid they cannot be recovered..."

"Nineteen swords..."

Mu You felt worried when he heard this, and subconsciously clenched his fists, a ball of anger rising in his heart.

"Who did it?" Mu You asked coldly.

Apart from being angry, he was also a little strange. There should be no danger in the world... Vivian said that she was living in another world. Could it be someone from that world did it?

"No, this kind of wound only hurts the heart, but other parts are intact. In fact, it is unlikely that it was done by an outsider..." Linglong hesitated.

"What do you mean?" Mu You frowned.

"This kind of neat wound can only be achieved by herself..." Linglong said.

"Herself? Self-harm?"

Mu You frowned upon hearing this. Nineteen knives? And why would she hurt herself?

Linglong didn't answer, but looked at him with a strange expression.

"What?" Mu You was stunned.

"See for yourself."

Linglong put her hand on his shoulder and synchronized the scene she just saw to Mu You.

Mu You closed his eyes, and the image of Lin Xue's soul body appeared in the perspective, and he followed Linglong's perspective to patrol all the way.

Sure enough, all other parts of Lin Xue's soul were intact, except for the heart, which was scarred by some kind of sharp blade. The horrific wounds were shocking.

However, these nineteen stab wounds were distributed very regularly.

Mu You suddenly opened his eyes, feeling a little surprised. He finally understood why Linglong looked at him like that just now.

The knife marks on Lin Xue's heart just formed the trajectory of two Chinese characters - 'Muyou'.

Nineteen is the number of strokes in his name... (End of chapter)